Advancing LGBT Rights

Events

21 November 2012

Out for Change: The Future of LGBT Rights

On November 28, 2012, the Ford Foundation brought together LGBT leaders and allies, artists, journalists, technologists, policymakers and funders to explore the next opportunities for progress for the LGBT movement, how social justice can be inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity, and how to engage broad communities in securing rights for LGBT people.

About the Event

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Highlights from Out for Change

A day with LGBT rights-focused social change makers. See Rea Carey, Carvens Lissaint, Kate Kendell, Kenji Yoshino, James Schamus and many others. Learn more about our LGBT initiative at http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/human-rights/advancing-lgbt-rights

Perspectives from Across the Country

Securing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is the civil and human rights cause of our generation. The foundation presents some unique perspectives from the LGBT community. Individuals, couples and families from across the United States share their stories of struggle, inclusion and hope.

The opening session of Out for change focuses on the challenges and opportunities the LGBT movement faces and what advancements can be made. Moderated by Laura Flanders, panelists include Rea Carey, Geoffrey Winder, Chai Feldblum and Richard Socarides.

A conversation about how the LGBT movement can be integrated into a broader social justice movement is moderated by Jonathan Capehart. Panelists include Reverend Delman L. Coates, Jorge Gutierrez, Kate Kendell, Ai-jen Poo and Neera Tanden.

When his screenplay for “Milk” won an Academy Award in 2009, Dustin Lance Black promised LGBT youth that they would soon have equal rights on a federal level. This year, Black’s play “8,” based on the Federal Proposition 8 trial, is breaking online viewership records while hundreds of original productions are put on across the country. At this lunchtime session Black and NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino discuss opportunities for advancing LGBT rights and supporting and inspiring a younger generation to lead the drive for social change.

B. Ruby Rich moderates a panel discussion on shifting public perceptions and building broad-based support for LGBT rights—with Nekisa Cooper, Sasha Constanza-Chock, James Schamus, Amy Ray and John Waters.

B. Ruby Rich
(Moderator) Film Critic and Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz